WORLD War III will break out in 2020 after North Korea fires a missile at Hawaii triggering a retaliation from the US, according to a man who claims to be a time traveller in a bizarre YouTube video.

Michael Phillips, who was introduced at the start of the 13-minute long video despite concealing his face, claims Kim Jong un declared war on the US, who wiped him and most of his army out when they fired a shot back.

Mr Phillips, who speaks with an obscured English accent, said the UK was dragged into the war and that Russia and China forgot against the British army.

He said the three-year conflict followed “a limited exchange” between the US and North Korea in March 2019.

He said: “All in all it was a very fast and brutal war and countless millions were killed.”

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Mr Phillips’s video, viewed more than 4million times since being uploaded on February 22, was widely mocked by commenters.

One wrote: “Can I have the winning lottery numbers please?”

While another simply said: “That’s enough internet for today.”

Mr Phillips said he stepped into a sphere that was hidden in a secret bunker after serving in the army.

One of the most popular references to time travel was in the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film The Circus (Image: GETTY)

He said the sphere was a time machine that used gravimetric distortion to tear hole in time space.

One of the most popular references to time travel was in the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film The Circus, which in the outtakes captures a woman walking across the set using what some claim to be a mobile phone.